On 15.02.2006 David W. Fenton wrote:
Sawkins has broken the code of scholarship, in my estimation. He's transgressed the ground rules of the musical economy. He may have badly broken the system in doing so -- a valuable record label may go under entirely because of his actions. Others may have to scale back their production as a result of Hyperion's failed defense of the present system.
What you are saying is, the record companies can make lots of money, partly from your work as musicologist, but musicologists (that includes me) have to do that work for nothing. In my opinion that's ridiculous. In fact, the more I think about it the more I think that Sawkins has a point.
It is not as though the money he was asking for came from his publisher. So your point about if you asked for more money it wouldn't get published is completely irrelevant. Hyperion obviously needed Sawkins work to do the recording. They should then keep to the law in compensating him. If that includes royalties, then I am all for it, for the benefit of the editor, because otherwise the editor will always be the greatest loser in the chain of music publishing.
Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
